The Arnica Quartet is going to tackle Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue this season, and I was made aware of two cool youtube clips concerning this greatest and wildest of late Beethoven quartet movements. The first (thanks to Elaine Fine at Musical Assumptions) is a visual representation of the fugue: The second is a clip from a biopic
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If you’re looking for something to do on this second day of Spring (with much different weather than yesterday), the Arnica Quartet (with guest cellist Trevor Fitzpatrick) will be performing at the Salem Public Library on the Camerata Musica series this afternoon at 2:30 p.m. The concert is FREE. We’ll be doing some core quartet
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This Sunday the Arnica Quartet will be performing on the Salem Camerata Musica series at the main branch of the Salem Public Library. The concert is at 2:30 in the afternoon, and is free to the public. The big finish piece for the concert is Beethoven’s Op. 59 no. 1 – part of a set
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Today I had two great Mozart experiences, and they were in two very different situations, but they shared similarities despite their different settings. The first: Mozart’s great Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major. What a sparkling jewel of perfection this concerto is! And as played by Angela Hewitt, it is polished to its highest
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Saturday, December 19th, the quartet played the Newport Performing Arts Center in Newport, Oregon as part of the Newport Symphony’s 2009-2010 season. We were invited by the NSO’s music director Adam Flatt, who Heather and I know well from his years as an apprentice conductor with the Oregon Symphony over a decade ago. He asked
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This Sunday, September 27th, at 2:30 p.m., the Chagall Quartet will be playing as part of the Salem concert series Camerata Musica at the Salem Library auditorium. The group’s members are Adam Lamotte and Gregory Ewer, violins; myself on viola; and Justin Kagan, cellist. It will be a delightful classical period concert – here’s the
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Neah-Kah-Nie Project String Quartet Sunday, April 19, 2–3 p.m. The Neah–Kah–Nie Project String Quartet was formed in 2007 to record the string quartet music of Ferdinand Sorenson and Sorenson’s grandson Dana Carlile. Sorenson’s music was featured in the documentary Susie Fennell Pipes and the The Neah–Kah–Nie String Quartet. The current members of the quartet are
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This happens just about every February. The gloom lifts, the days start to lengthen, the sun comes out, and the temperature rises. The daffodils which popped up their greenery a couple weeks ago suddenly have their colorful clown collars on, and my brain goes straight out the window! Add to this the fact that we’re
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Today I played a gig at a local mall. It was for the opening of a new hearing aid store which specialized in their own brand of high-end hearing aids. The ensemble for the group was a traditional string quartet. As we were walking up to the store, I remarked to my wife that at
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Yesterday, thanks to the generosity of Chamber Music Northwest, my string quartet [the Arnica Quartet] got the opportunity to get a two-hour coaching with an internationally-renowned chamber musician – Steven Tenenbom of the Orion Quartet and Opus One piano quartet. It was a great experience for us to get some high-level feedback on our work
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If you’re not set on what you’re going to do this Friday evening, why not go hear some spankin’ new music played to the hilt by some of the finest musicians around?
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If you’ve got time in your lunch hour for a quick concert of chamber music masterpieces, come on over to the Old Church (1422 SW 11th Ave) at Noon today to hear (mostly) members of the Oregon Symphony play music by Beethoven and Brahms. Here’s the line-up:
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